William G Simon

Walt Disney Co.'s plans to purchase KHJ-TV Channel 9 met another possible obstacle Thursday as a Federal Communications Commission official called for a hearing into business dealings of a principal figure in the proposed $320-million deal. FCC Administrative Law Judge Edward J. Kuhlmann ordered an inquiry into past activities of Los Angeles lawyer William G. Simon, founder and president of the investor group Fidelity Television.

William G. Simon, 84, former head of the Los Angeles FBI office and contemporary of J. Edgar Hoover. Born in Douglas, Ariz., Simon was educated at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., and UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School. As an FBI agent for 24 years, Simon headed major investigations into espionage, kidnapping and other key crimes. He ended his service as special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office, retiring in 1964 to practice law as senior partner in the firm Simon & Sheridan.

The most expensive home ever sold in Orange County--a Newport Beach waterfront estate with breathtaking views and rich neighbors--has been bought for about 60% of its record sales price, brokers said. William G.

The most expensive home ever sold in Orange County--a Newport Beach waterfront estate with breathtaking views and rich neighbors--has been bought for about 60% of its record sales price, brokers said. William G.

William G. Simon, 84, former head of the Los Angeles FBI office and contemporary of J. Edgar Hoover. Born in Douglas, Ariz., Simon was educated at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., and UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School. As an FBI agent for 24 years, Simon headed major investigations into espionage, kidnapping and other key crimes. He ended his service as special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office, retiring in 1964 to practice law as senior partner in the firm Simon & Sheridan.

Thomas R. Sheridan, a prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer who served as executive director of the McCone Commission and special assistant to the U.S. attorney general, died Thursday. He was 60. Sheridan died of cardiac arrest at St. Vincent's Medical Center where he had been hospitalized for several weeks. He had also suffered a series of strokes. U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy had appointed Sheridan his special assistant in 1962.

An imposing home on the westerly tip of Harbor Island has come on the market in Newport Beach. The 18,000-square-foot house sits on slightly more than half an acre but has more than 300 feet on the bay front and a dock where several large yachts could be parked. It was built in 1990 of concrete and steel and has an eight-car subterranean garage. The house is one of the highest-priced homes for sale in Orange County.

The most expensive home ever sold in Orange County--a Newport Beach waterfront estate with breathtaking views and rich neighbors--has been bought for about 60% of its record sales price, brokers said. William G.

Westinghouse Electric's decision not to purchase KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles from Gencorp may bring a windfall worth hundreds of millions of dollars for a group of prominent Southern California investors who have fought for 22 years to win the station's license, industry officials say. Fidelity Television, the investor group, was included in the deal by which Gencorp's RKO General subsidiary would have sold KHJ to Westinghouse.

A federal administrative law judge has rejected an agreement that would allow RKO General to sell station KHJ-TV in Los Angeles to Westinghouse Broadcasting & Cable, saying that the proposal would be "detrimental to the public interest." The $313-million deal, proposed last November, would have settled a lengthy dispute between RKO and Fidelity Television, a group of prominent Southern California investors, over the ownership of KHJ-TV, Channel 9.

Walt Disney Co.'s plans to purchase KHJ-TV Channel 9 met another possible obstacle Thursday as a Federal Communications Commission official called for a hearing into business dealings of a principal figure in the proposed $320-million deal. FCC Administrative Law Judge Edward J. Kuhlmann ordered an inquiry into past activities of Los Angeles lawyer William G. Simon, founder and president of the investor group Fidelity Television.

RKO General, the once-giant broadcasting company mired in a decades-old battle to defend its suitability as a license holder, suffered another blow Tuesday when an FCC administrative law judge ruled that the company is unfit to run KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles and 13 other television and radio stations across the land. RKO immediately said it would appeal the decision and does not expect the ruling to harm its 5-month-old agreement to sell KHJ-TV to Walt Disney Co.

The legal history of Anaheim-based KDOC--Orange County's first and only commercial TV station--offers a marked contrast with the squeaky-clean image of the board president and major stockholder, Pat Boone. After 14 years of what Boone once termed "steady, relentless and often frustrating efforts" to obtain a broadcast license from the Federal Communications Commission, the station made its debut on Channel 56 in October, 1982.